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Pumpkin Toast is the fall version of Avocado Toast, it’s easy to make with a variety of toppings, from sweet to savory, perfect for breakfast or a snack!

With the first day of fall coming up on Friday, I decided it was time to find as many new ways to eat pumpkin as possible!

As the worlds biggest fan of avocado, I could not love avocado toast anymore, but during the fall and winter months when avocados are harder to find, I felt like avocado toast needed a suitable substitute and pumpkin toast is where it’s at!

Loaded with fiber, potassium and vitamin C, pumpkin is great for heart health and boosting your immune system! I topped my pumpkin toast 7 ways, some sweet, some savory, some perfect for breakfast, others great as a sweet snack and all of them perfect for serving friends and family at all of your fall and winter parties!

Halloween is coming up on Monday, and I’m so excited because I’m making a special spooktacular appearance on my favorite San Diego morning show, San Diego Living!

I’ll be teaching viewers how to prepare Buffalo Chicken Chili and Slow Cooker Cornbread to dig into while waiting for Trick or Treaters, then I’ll be showing how to make this Ultimate Candy Cookie Cake to put that leftover Halloween candy to good use!

Is it just me or do you think of popcorn balls and Halloween hand-in-hand? It’s kind of like stuffing and Thanksgiving. Why do we not eat popcorn balls and stuffing year-round? I mean, they’re both really super delicious! I think I’m going to start the year-round stuffing and popcorn ball trend, who’s coming with me? 😉

Any who, while thinking of new fall recipes, including ideas for fall holidays, like Halloween, I came up with my own little twist on the delicious popcorn ball!

White Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Spice Cookies are a sweet and delicious treat combining the flavors of fall, perfect for Halloween parties and events!

Last weekend I was invited to attend a BBQ with a friend… about two hours before the BBQ. Being a food blogger, it is completely unacceptable to show up to a BBQ empty handed… even when you only have two hours notice!

I was trying to figure out what I had in my pantry that I could toss together that didn’t require a trip to the grocery store. Luckily I had a bag of white chocolate chips and a bag of Pumpkin Spice Hershey Kisses staring at me from the pantry.

It was one of those moments where you look at two items, a light bulb goes off and you immediately think “the two of you need to meet and become friends!”

My favorite time of year is the week when Pumpkin Beer hits the shelves and college football begins! I somehow managed to take this glorious week and my favorite beer and make it even better in this delicious concoction that transforms a classic dessert favorite into an adult style fall treat with a pumpkin twist!

Ingredients (makes 1 float)

3 scoops vanilla ice cream

1 cup pumpkin ale

1/2 tsp cinnamon

Scoop the ice cream into a tall glass. Pour the pumpkin ale over the ice cream and top with a dash of cinnamon.

This dessert is perfect for the beginning of fall when it’s still warm enough outside to enjoy ice cream, but fall is in the air, so it also feels acceptable to begin drinking pumpkin beer! And you thought root beer floats couldn’t get better? Well, they just did!

Grab a spoon and dig in to this scrumptious Pumpkin Ale Ice Cream Float!

I spent a decent amount of last week scouring San Diego in search of these mythical “Hershey’s Pumpkin Spice Kisses”!

Low and behold, they do exist! I eventually found them at Target and turned them into these delicious chocolate pumpkin cookies for my annual Pumpkin Carving Party on Friday night! They were a huge hit and I highly recommend you make them immediately 🙂

Ingredients (makes 2 dozen cookies)

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp kosher salt

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 cup cocoa

1/2 cup butter (melted)

1/2 cup white sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1 egg

24 Hershey’s Pumpkin Spice Kisses

Combine the flour, salt, baking soda and cocoa in a small mixing bowl.

Next, combine the butter, sugars, vanilla and egg in a large mixing bowl, then add the cocoa flour mixture.

Mix until combined well.

Roll into balls and place on a baking stone.

Bake at 325° for 12 minutes.

Top with the Kisses while warm to let the pumpkin goodness melt into the chocolate cookies!

Oh my poor neglected blog 🙁 Mr Rodas, the math professor I like to refer to as the “Grim Reaper”, does not realize that his 40 hours a week of pre-calc homework is affecting more than just those 15 dwindled down suckers still left in the class after the first two exams created by the math devil himself! It’s affecting the thousands of my loyal blog followers that have not gotten to enjoy my witty sense of humor, delectable recipes or insight into my favorite things for an entire week! But no need to worry, I’ve made my grand entrance back into the blogosphere with an AMAZING new recipe for you all to enjoy in this, my favorite, fall season!!!

Hi, I'm Whitney! I’m a sports-loving, coffee-drinking, food blogger, the host of “ 29 Minute Meals”, a contributing writer for TODAY Food, cookbook author and on camera food and lifestyle expert, regularly featured on news stations across the country! On my blog, you’ll find most recipes are made in 29 minutes or less, in one pot, or in a crock pot!
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